Pros
Catered lunch and nice coworkers. People have a lot of ambition here and you get a general sense that people mean well even in the office that has a lot of prison-like energy.
Cons
The culture is broken, and it’s not because of the lack of benefits to employees (which is another story). It all comes down to this: There are no bad teams, only bad leaders. At first, I thought my boss meant well, but this was proven wrong. They poked into personal lives and crossed uncomfortable lines (telling people their conversations were expensive and asked why I had set a meeting up with a colleague/talked ill about my coworkers to me in 1-1 meetings), used me as a scapegoat when things did not go well, nitpicked on extremely low value things, and repeatedly told me that I did not meet expectations without providing adequate guidance or nurture/invest in my skills. I’ve had good bosses, I’ve had okay bosses, and I cannot emphasize enough that this boss was the very worst one. People are under the guise of trust because of the 1 on 1s and team talks, but I quickly learned that many things are said out loud. Anybody can say anything. However, there are underlying messages that are unspoken. There was an expectation that everyone would work 10 hours a day, no matter what management claimed: "we don't keep track of how much you work per day". Management assumed that people would be out sick maximum one day at a time and keep track of how long someone stayed at work, even if they denied that it mattered. Additionally, micromanagement and scapegoating is the norm. Even more troubling, I received a "negative" point of feedback that was entirely fabricated by management (invalidated by the person/people who had supposedly provided me that point of feedback) -- directly given to me, it seems, to ruin my own confidence. I want to put this review out there because people should be allowed to speak out and people who leave poor Glassdoor reviews should not be threatened. They should be able to stand up for themselves in the workplace. In addition, sacrificing health and self care is something that a job should NEVER ask you to do. This is a glaring red flag. This is not something that SP would ever admit to, but there are many instances, more than I will be able to go depth into in this review, that made me feel that I was treated quite indispensably and that my health and personal situations were not a priority. The encouragement of covering up and putting on a good face to the public is a trend. While there is nothing wrong with wanting to present the most positive outlook to potential candidates and others in the business world, the truth should not feel fake. The “best bosses” review is absolutely comical, it’s very inauthentic and very, very fake. Buyer beware. How do I know this? A lot of phrases that are baked into the reviews are phrases that management has echoed to us many times. For those who currently work and have worked at SP, they can attest to this and know that it is not just a little but deeply, painfully obvious.
